The Shock of Night

Patrick W. Carr

Oct 2016 · Darkwater Saga Book 1 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Danny Campbell

About this audiobook

When one man is brutally murdered and the priest he works for mortally wounded, Willet Dura, reeve to the king of Bunard, is called to investigate. As he begins to question the dying priest, the man pulls Willet close and screams in a foreign tongue. Then he dies without another word. Willet returns to his task, but the clues to the crime lead to contradictions and questions without answers, and his senses are skewed. People he touches appear to have a subtle shift, as though he can divine their deepest thoughts. In a world divided between haves and have-nots, gifted and common, Willet soon learns he's been passed the rarest gift of all-a gift that's not supposed to exist. Now Willet must pursue the murderer still on the loose in Bunard even as he's pulled into a dangerous conflict that threatens not only his city, but his entire world-a conflict that will force him to come to terms with his inability to remember how he escaped the Darkwater Forest and what happened to him inside it.

About the author

Patrick W. Carr is the author of the acclaimed fantasy series The Staff and the Sword. His A Cast of Stones won the 2014 Carol Award for Speculative Fiction and the 2014 Clive Staples Award. He teaches high school math and makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee, with his incredible wife, Mary, and their four sons.

A classically trained actor, director, and teacher with many regional Shakespeare plays to his credit, Danny Campbell has narrated over 150 titles and directed at least that many. He is a multiple AudioFile Earphones Award winner and was named one of AudioFile's Best of the Year 2017.